Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s
Amadeus
Scored from 594 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
In 18th-century Vienna, court composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed with jealousy upon encountering the prodigious Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As Mozart's unparalleled genius threatens Salieri's own legacy, his envy spirals into a bitter obsession to destroy the younger composer. The film explores the tension between talent, mediocrity, and ambition in the world of classical music.
Released in 1984, Amadeus is a drama, biography and music film. Its certificate is PG. It runs 2h 40m. Its country of origin is listed as Austria and the United States. Miloš Forman directed it, with F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce and Elizabeth Berridge in the cast.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 6,858 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 594 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 629 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Amadeus lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 594.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
